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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Toilet paper art on my $0 budget

Have you seen the amazing pieces of art people have been making out of toilet paper rolls? They have been all over the blog world for a couple of months and from the first time I saw them I have been saving up to make some. No.. not saving money, saving toilet paper and paper towel rolls. I have enlisted the help of family and friends to speed this process along. They all thought I was crazy until they saw the end result!

No one believes that these are made from toilet paper rolls and everyone asks to touch them just to make sure!

I love the end result! I hung these on the stairwell wall above the buffet in our dining room. This wall will be ripped down after we finished the basement so I didn't want to spend a lot of money on the art. I am so happy that my $0 project turned out so well.

You can make these so they have pointy edges (like I have done) or rounded edges. I did the pointy so it matched my lamp and curtains. I tried one of each and they don't match :)

It is better to use the white toilet paper rolls, the recycled paper ones (brown) don't paint as nicely. Having said that, the brown work great too. I made one out of each so I see the difference.

I cut the toilet paper rolls into 4 sections of 1 inch each. Measure your toilet paper rolls and divide into an even number.

I started by making lots of the 4 petal flowers. Be sure to match the points very well on both sides. This is the trick to getting a clean piece.

Use hot glue to attach the pieces. Many sites recommend using craft glue and clamping it together until it dries...I am impatient and hot glue dries almost immediately. I did notice a few sections unglued after spray painting but I just glued them again and it was fine.

Spray prime before you spray paint. The brown paper rolls absorb the paint and dries almost blotchy.

I made 2 small pieces (shown) and one large one. I have not decided where to hang the bigger one yet but I will find a home for it soon. I was debating hanging it above these two, but I think it will be too much. What do you think? Does it look good as is or should I add the larger one too?

Each piece took 9 empty toilet paper rolls and approximately 30 minutes to cut and glue. Not bad! Who would have thought!

Not only is this another craft on my $0 budget, I am actually filling in spots of my house that have been bare for almost 2 years. I am loving this :)

I hung these on the wall by using really small nail (with almost no head on it) and I just hung the top loop/point onto it. You can't see the nail at all when it is on it. Not the fanciest of ways but the only way I could figure out how to do it without seeing how it was hanging.

I just saw my first post for this yesterday -- I'm REALLY new to the whole crafting blog world -- and I'm LOVING yours! I was thinking I was gonna need to hot glue too, I'm a pretty instant-gratification kind of gal, haha!

That's incredible! I love that you're doing all this on a $0 budget! My husband would love this kind of budget in our home, but I don't know if I'm up for the challenge...So I won't tell him yet! ha ha

You would never know this was toilet paper rolls - LOVE IT! You did an exceptional job on this art. I MUST try it. I am a new follower. Thanks for linking to Tickled Pink a week ago (a little behind...sorry). I love your 0 dollar challenge too.Holly504 Main

I am remodeling my bathroom on a very tight budget. I think this is a great idea to decorate the big blank wall that I have. I have the toilet paper rolls already saved since I use them to roll up paper for fire starter "logs" for when we go camping. Thank you for the great idea in my price range.

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I just finished this project. I did 3 of them to balance out my naked living room walls. They came out great! I just didn't know the spray paint would be so strong even for outside! They're downstairs drying in the basement cuz I couldn't take the fumes anymore and yet they're still floating up to my bedroom upstairs. But I can't wait til its completely dry and I can finally hang it up in the living room. Thx.

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